I have very little time at the moment....and I was not even aware that it started...

Very strange anyway...
Given the fact that there is nearly a full month left to play, I think I can manage.

I am not available the coming week due to business travel.
Scheduling should be OK starting August 16. Thursday, August 15 in the evening could work - but I am flying back home - in case there is a delay on the plane I will not manage.
In general I can play all evenings between 18:00 and 22:00.
Weekends possible, but only selected times.

Falkone and Graue Eminenz did not show up on Tuesday - which was one of 2 days where all committed to.
Nobody posted anywhere they would not be here.
Graue Eminenz was in the Lobby, but did not answer and then was offline again.

This is the 2nd evening all others have been waiting, which is not nice and impolite.

1) Playing with a bot, makes the tourney look like crap.
2) A bot in Europe could cause far more damage than in US, especially in 5ers. Euro map has way more important grey track that could be easily taken by the bot.

2 solutions :

1) For more credibility, would not it be possible to sub Falkone for someone else ? Maybe Beef can sub in for him.
(even if Beef's posts were not of the greatest quality, he could be the only one up to the task right away).

or

2) redesign the table quickly for 6 players with 15 games each (or less). All the games played would fit in without any consequence.

Sorry I wasn't there yesterday, I don't know if we could have played some games then. Notice about yesterday being real game date just game so late, that was not possible for me anymore.

I'm usually quite flexible with dates. I give multible possible dates like I did few weeks ago. It's just that those dates usually suits me well, if we agree the dates few days in advance. Not within few hours timeline.